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This major health insurer may stop paying your ER bill on July 1

A subsidiary of the nation’s second-biggest health insurer wants to crack down on unnecessary emergency room visits, and they’re hitting consumers where it hurts the most to get the job done — in the wallet.

But here’s one you may not have heard about Anthem: The company has decided that it will stop paying claims for some customers who show up at the ER with non-emergent symptoms, according to a report in The Los Angeles Times.

Beginning July 1, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia — an Anthem subsidiary — says it won’t pay up for ER care that’s determined to be unnecessary after the fact.

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